In the paper we discuss the influence of the route flexibility degree, the open rate of operations and the production type coefficient on makespan. The flexible job-open shop scheduling problem FJOSP (an extension of the classical job shop scheduling) is analyzed. For the analysis of the production process we used a hybrid heuristic of the GRASP (greedy randomized adaptive search procedure) wit...

This paper describes a new approach for solving disjunctive temporal problems such as the open shop and job shop scheduling domains. Much previous research in systematic search approaches for these problems has focused on developing problem specific constraint propagators and ordering heuristics. Indeed, the common belief is that many of these problems are too difficult to solve without such do...

The partially-concurrent open shop scheduling problem is presented. The standard open shop scheduling problem is generalized by allowing some operations to be processed concurrently. This generalization is directly motivated from a real-life timetabling project of assigning technicians to airplanes in an airplane garage. A schedule for the partially-concurrent problem is represented by a digrap...

Only two branch-and-bound methods have been published so far for the Open-Shop problem. The best one has been proposed by Brucker et al. But some square problems from size 7 are still unsolved by it. We present an improving technique for branch-and-bound methods applied to Brucker et al. algorithm for Open-Shop problems. Our technique is based on intelligent backtracking. Intelligent backtracki...

This Paper is an attempt to study two stage open shop scheduling problem in which processing time of the jobs are given. The objective of the paper is to obtain an algorithm to minimize the rental cost of the machines in two stage open shop scheduling problem under specified rental policy. A numerical illustration is given to justify the proposed algorithm.

This is a summary of the journal article (Malapert et al. 2012) published by Journal on Computing entitled “An Optimal Constraint Programming Approach to the Open-Shop Problem”. The article presents an optimal constraint programming approach for the Open-Shop scheduling problem, which integrates recent constraint propagation and branching techniques with new upper bound heuristics. Randomized r...

Many problems in industry are a form of open-shop scheduling problem (OSSP). We describe a hybrid approach to this problem which combines a Genetic Algorithm (GA) with simple heuristic schedule building rules. Excellent performance is found on some benchmark OSS problems, including improvements on previous best-known results. We describe how our approach can be simply amended to deal with the m...